# One Third Down... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735 "2008-08-12T15:10:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/1 "2008-08-12T15:10:48Z")
It’s a milestone for **Skulldigger** and me today. Thirty-three years and four months ago, we stood up in the First Methodist Church and pronounced our vows to each other. One third of a century. “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” Never any regrets. We lost my parents and aunts, her only surviving relative (her little brother). Both had conversion experiences. She had her gall bladder out, I had a heart attack and open heart surgery. No biological kids – but God gave us homeless teens who became our sons, and then they married and gave us the next thing to grandkids. It’s been wonderful. And I just needed to share that with you all. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/2 "2008-08-12T15:18:29Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/3 "2008-08-12T16:01:13Z")
Congratulations! That’s truly something to be proud of. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/4 "2008-08-12T16:09:27Z")
Congratulations! Here’s to many more happy years! ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/5 "2008-08-12T16:17:52Z")
Congratulations! Here’s a glass to the next thirty three years together! ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/6 "2008-08-12T16:22:25Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/7 "2008-08-12T16:43:57Z")
Congratulations! A few more years and you’ll have Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward beat! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/8 "2008-08-12T17:52:05Z")
**Polycarp** - Congratulations! My sister and her husband’s 30th wedding anniversary is today. They were engaged three days after they met, and married three weeks later. They’ve survived 4 living kids, a set of twins that died, and two miscarriages, military postings in 4 countries, moving at least 12 times, various illnesses. And my BIL still say she’s the best thing that ever happened to him. StG ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/9 "2008-08-13T00:58:11Z")
_God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, preserve, and keep you; the Lord mercifully with his favor look upon you, and fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace; that you may faithfully live together in this life, and in the age to come have life everlasting. Amen._ Book of Common Prayer (as if you didn’t know) 😃 Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/10 "2008-08-13T01:30:17Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/11 "2008-08-13T02:31:06Z")
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. –Amy Bloom Congratulations! _smooches you both_ ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/12 "2008-08-13T02:42:19Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-third-down/459735/13 "2008-08-13T09:01:25Z")
Congratulations, I’m so jealous! And I second the prayer that **swampbear** included!